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by chr1 7y ago
You could have many children (10-100) living in well off families where malnourishment or lack of access to education would not be an issue. And I would gladly control upbringing of a real child, by raising it as my own, why do you think th
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by chr1 7y ago
Of course we should not clone people with the unsafe technology, but we should work to improve it to the point where it is as safe as IVF. The problem with twin studies is that they are not repeatable, and the sample of just two is too smal
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by chr1 7y ago
It's very unfortunate that we still do not have any cloned people. Cloning, especially cloning famous scientists, would greatly help in understanding what part of their success is due to genes, and what is nurture/luck.
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by chr1 7y ago
Is the surface of these less smooth than surface of normal rockets/planes, or is it simply the effect of mirror like surface making bumpiness easier to see?
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by chr1 7y ago
Exactly, seasteading and 'terraforming' deserts are other short term solutions, but for any of that to get more investment we need growing population in rich parts of the world, that would need this and would have money for this.
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by chr1 7y ago
Would be interesting to know which percentage of vim searches are for vim keybindings in other editors. (i know several people who use vim keybindings, but don't know anywone who uses vim itself)
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by chr1 7y ago
It is more depressing that our lifetime is not even 100 years long. Hopefully Aubrey de Gray's predictions about longevity escape velocity would turn out to be true and we or our children would be able to wait for communications spanni
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by chr1 7y ago
The threat in 500 mln years is that all CO2 will be used in shells of see creatures. But considering how good we are at freeing more carbon this issue should be easy to fix.
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by chr1 7y ago
One reason is that all the uninhabitable land on earth that gets sunlight, already belongs to someone. It is possible to colonize open sea, and some people are working on it. But the main reason to colonize other planets is the potential fu
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by chr1 7y ago
Usually it doesn't accumulate as new trees grow in the place of burned trees.
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by chr1 7y ago
Quantum computers working (or not working) would be another important test for quantum mechanics. Because quantum computer with n qubits to work requires amplitudes to behave the way quantum mechanical equations predict to the precision of
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by chr1 7y ago
GMO debate will be settled by development of crops that will be order of magnitude better than existing varieties. It is easy to dismiss the current GMOs that are a bit cheaper, but something like non-toxic cassava, perennial wheat, or twi
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by chr1 7y ago
Plants did all of these, but they did the minimal amount necessary for them to survive. We can use existing plants as a huge library to mix and match behavior to get what we need. Unfortunately "just replacing" won't produce
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by chr1 7y ago
A group of these superconductors was discovered by a computer simulation [1], they are not meant to be used in technology, but better understanding of mechanism by which superconductors work, and improvements in quantum mechanical simulatio
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by chr1 7y ago
Perhaps before building a swarm around the sun we should build one around the earth to gain fine grained control over the weather, and it even doesn't need to be in the orbit, but can be a swarm of sun heated air balloons.
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by chr1 7y ago
Right, but the process of going from no trees to enough trees that can change climate enough to sustain themselves is very hard, and one bad year in the process can reset many year worth of progress. The linked article made me think that pe
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by chr1 7y ago
Would be nice to have a version of this for semi-deserts, a tree that collects and stores large amount of water during rainy season and then secretes it in the dry season.
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by chr1 7y ago
Step back from what? A middle sized autonomous airship carrying one container, would be a huge step up from semi trucks, as it would be 2-3 times faster would not cause damage to roads, could be used in places where there are no good roads,
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by chr1 7y ago
People simultaneously want to have fewer children, to not have many immigrants, and to have high pensions for long time. It is obvious that if there are not enough young people there won't be enough money to pay pensions for the old, t
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by chr1 7y ago
This happens because people want a disagree button, but have only a milder version of flag button instead. Sometimes one just wants to support a viewpoint without bringing additional arguments. I think it would be better to display separate
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by chr1 7y ago
Good point, proofs that require brute force enumeration of all possibilities are not nice, but the physicists who use the results to describe some symmetries still think the results are beautiful.
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by chr1 7y ago
Instead of putting reflectors into orbit it would be cheaper to use hot air balloons, but in general either reflectors or balloons are the best solution to climate change, because they allow to actually control the weather, and the amount o
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by chr1 7y ago
Can gene drive be used against ticks? Mosquitos get many defenders who claim they are important as food for other species, but even that argument can't be used against eliminating ticks.
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by chr1 7y ago
Does anyone know example of math that is not beautiful? As far as i can tell everything that explains something more complex in terms of simpler rules is called beautiful, but that is all the math! So it's not very surprising that math
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by chr1 7y ago
That's a very important point, and i should have mentioned it in my comment. In 100 years the poor countries will be much richer, and we have opportunity to help improve their situation sooner which in turn would help everyone by makin
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by chr1 7y ago
The first matrix was a good movie but this quote is not a good one. All the mammals (and other animals) multiply as much as they can, only not having enough to eat, or another species eating them can stop that. In most cases populations fl
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by chr1 7y ago
> it is happening and it is killing us While the "it is happening" part has good amount of supporting data and is almost certainly true, the killing us part is much more questionable, most predictions agree that if we do nothin
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by chr1 7y ago
Using hot air balloons as sun shades would be much cheaper than satellites in high orbit. And balloons would give more flexibility as they can be used to heat the air above clouds and disperse them when needed. But most importantly they can
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by chr1 7y ago
On one hand you have confidence in our wisdom (computational models) to predict climate 30 years forward, on the other hand you do not trust the same models to predict the effect of our modifications applied in a controllable manner? I agre
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by chr1 7y ago
Pleistocene Park seems like great idea, but unfortunately they do not have plans to use it for meat production, which could dramatically increase the speed of conversion of the tundra to grassland, and save the tropical forests. And this se

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